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also known as Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii
The Way I Spent the End of the World2006
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Set in Bucharest 1989 during the last year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva, seventeen, lives with her parents and her seven-year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reform school, where she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with him. Convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave, Lalalilu, along with his friends from school, devises a plan to kill the dictator. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders.
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"Catalin Mitulescu’s 2006 debut feature is a charming teen movie set in the last months of Ceausescu’s dictatorship." - Cristina Álvarez López, Keyframe
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- Monalisa Basarab - Choir teacher
- Ionut Becheru - Alexandru Vomică
- Jean Constantin - Uncle Floricã
- Mircea Diaconu - Grigore Matei
- Timotei Duma - Lalalilu Matei
- Grigore Gonta - Ceaușică
- Dorotheea Petre - Eva Matei
- Valentin Popescu - The music teacher
- Nicolae Praida - Nea Titi
- Marius Stan - Tarzan
- Marian Stoica - Silvicã
- Corneliu Tigancu - Bulba
- Carmen Ungureanu - Maria Matei
- Cristian Vararu - Andrei
- Florin Zamfirescu - The principal of the training school
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loved it love Eva & her little brother Lalai_ i can't imagine living in Romania under an idiot dictator like i can't imagine living in the USA under an idiot president Trump_really a wonderful film
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I really enjoyed the tone of the film, the way that the story of the downfall of a Communist dictator was set in such everyday terms, the way that the characters carried on with their lives even under this tyrannical rule and how the film wasn't just a depressing story about how depressing dictatorship is but a really joyful story about how one simply carries on when life is hard. I loved the little boy and his older sister and how their innocent perspectives put such a childlike on the social realistic drama.